Other MotorcyclesForum for you to engage in banter about other motorcycles. Good place for former (and soon to be) V-Strom owners to keep on the site even though they are without a Strom. This is not a tech forum on other bikes. There are other sites for that.

I really, really, REALLY wanted a CB750 when I was in High School. One kid (whose Dad owned the Busch distribution in our county) had one, and I remember watching him tear out of the parking lot on it like it was yesterday.

What Honda did for the motorcycling world was phenomenal. Well designed, well built devices to use everyday and gave the industry a new standard we still can appreciate today.
I had a '73 500/4. Wonderful little bike, but really crappy mileage. Love the lines of those bikes. True classics.

I found an article that says the bike will be in dealerships next March. Which is just about perfect, because that's when Uncle Sam gives me some of my tax money back, which I traditionally use to buy stupid stuff I don't really need!

Actually the CB1100 doesn't remind me nearly as much of the original sohc cb750 as it does the 79 and later dohc 750, right down to the comstar wheel look alikes.
Having owned a 72 CB750 in the day along with a slew of other bikes that were contemporary at the time, they were good then. Today, they are slow, buzzy, the brakes suck, the crude suspension makes them ride like a goat and the frames had all the rigidity of a piece of linguini.
Now not to say bikes of the time are not fun to own, I have a 79 BMW because of that, just that when you take off the rose colored glasses the good 'ol days don't look as good. Certainly nothing I want to pay todays prices for to revisit.

The CB750 was probably the single biggest threat to the Harley Davidson brand at the time.

My sister's boyfriend during those years was a factory-trained HD mechanic who worked in the Ft. Lauderdale dealership. He told me how the Honda dealer couldn't get the 750's out of the crates fast enough for the buyers. He moonlighted at the Honda shop doing setup on them, which was basically a 30-minute job. He said the Shovelheads he'd set up from the factory took days and weeks to sort out; the customer would ride away, stuff would fall off and break, the bike would come back for repairs, etc. HD was having union problems at that time as well; Marc told me bikes would come in from the factory with wrenches in the primary cases, ball bearings in the gas tanks, etc. No wonder Honda ate their lunch.

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